1. Is reading an automatic process? Why or why not? If it is automatic, has it always been? Under what circumstances can it be controlled?
2. I'm sure we've all experienced a situation where we were having a conversation with someone and we thought we heard someone else say our name, and so we looked around to see who this other person was. Given what you know about attention, why do you think this might happen? Is there something special about your own name?
3. In your own words, describe the traditional model of memory. What are the primary properties of each part of this model?
4. Compare and contrast dual-code theory with the propositional hypothesis. Speculate as to whether information is stored in a dual-code fashion or a propositional fashion. Justify your answer.
5. Where do schemas fit into dual-code theory? What about in the propositional hypothesis?
6. Do the "mental shortcuts" and heuristics that Sternberg discusses in Chapter 7 lead you to believe that we store mental maps in terms of a pictoral code a la dual code theory, or that we store them in a propositional format?
7. How can the Levels of Processing framework be used to explain why cued recall is better than free recall on memory tests?